A person made the following statement, “There is not clear text for this huge part of your faith that Christ died for our sins. He never mentioned this out of His own mouth.”
We will let God’s Word, the Bible, answer those statements concerning Christ dying for our sins. You will see the consistency of the message across the Bible.
This is forecast in the Old Testament e.g. Genesis 3:15, Exodus c12 and c25-30, Leviticus c4-5 and Daniel 9:24-26.
Isaiah
Isaiah 53:1-12 “Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? v2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. v3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. v4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. v5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. v6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. v7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth. v8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. v9 And they made His grave with the wicked-But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth. v10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand. v11 He shall see the labour of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities. v12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
Matthew
Matthew 9:2, 6-7 “Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.” … v6 “But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” –then He said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house. v7 And he arose and departed to his house.”
Matthew 16:21 “From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.”
Matthew 26:28 “For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
Mark
Mark 9:31 “For He taught His disciples and said to them, “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third day.”
Mark 10:45 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Mark 14:24 “And He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.”
Luke
Luke 18:32-33; “For He (The Son of Man i.e. Jesus Christ v31) will be delivered to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon. v33 They will scourge Him and kill Him. And the third day He will rise again.”
Luke 24:7 “(Angels v4) Saying, ‘The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.’”
John
John 1:29 “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”
John 3:15-16 “That whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. v16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
John 8:24 “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
John 10:11 (v7 Jesus said) “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.”
John 10:15 (v7 Jesus said) “As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.”
John 19:30 “So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.”
Acts
Acts 2:38 “Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Acts 4:12 “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Acts 5:30-31 “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.
v31 Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Saviour, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins.”
Acts 26:17b-18a The Lord Jesus Christ speaking (v15), “To whom I now send you, v18 ‘to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins.”
Hebrews
Hebrews 1:3 “Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.”
Hebrews 9:26 “For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.”
Hebrews 9:28 “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”
Hebrews 10:3 “But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. v4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. v5 Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me.”
Hebrews 10:11-12 “And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: v12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God.”
Hebrews 10:19-20 “Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, v20 by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh.”
Hebrews 13:11-12 “For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. v12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.”
1Peter
1Peter 2:24 “Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness–by whose stripes you were healed.”
1Peter 3:18 “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.”
1John
1John 2:2 “And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.”
1John 2:12 “I write to you, little children, Because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake.”
1John 4:10 “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”
Revelation
Revelation 1:5 “And from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood.”
Romans
Romans 4:6-8 “Just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: v7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered; v8 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin.”
Romans 4:23-25 “Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, v24 but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, v25 who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.”
Romans 5:6 “For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.”
Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 6:10 “For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.”
1Corinthians
1Corinthians 15:3-4 “For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, v4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.”
2Corinthians
2Corinthians 5:15 “And He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.”
Galatians
Galatians1:4 “Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.”
Ephesians
Ephesians 1:7 “In whom (“the Beloved” i.e. the Lord Jesus Christ) we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace (i.e. undeserved favour).”
Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, v9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.”
Ephesians 4:32 “And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you.”
Colossians
Colossians 2:13-14 “And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses. v14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.”
1Thessalonians
1Thessalonians 5:9-10 “For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, v10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.”
1Timothy
1Timothy 2:6 “Who (Christ Jesus v5) gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.”